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DeFi Engineer
Focusing on low-latency systems, strategy optimization, and operating at the intersection of trading, quantitative research, and blockchain infrastructure.
About acheron
Under the trade name AcheronTrading, the company is a designated market maker and provides liquidity and advisory services to digital asset issuers on exchanges worldwide. It is our belief that market inefficiency is one of the factors preventing digital assets/cryptocurrencies from achieving mass adoption. As such, our focus is to construct and provide liquidity services for digital assets from the most embryonic stages and throughout their adoption cycle.
Acheron Trading has over 125 institutional clients with market share across over 95 exchanges worldwide.
Our services
Market making is essential to emerging digital assets because, without a liquid trading environment, market participants cannot buy or sell tokens without causing a drastic change in the market price. This phenomenon is known as "market slippage." AcheronTrading's services directly reduce market slippage and thus result in more efficient trade for market participants.
We have integrated with over fifty decentralized and centralized exchanges providing holistic coverage across the digital asset ecosystem. Receive data-backed insights to determine which venues are the right fit for your goals.
Emerging digital assets can be hyper-volatile during price discovery. We consult teams in designing and selecting the appropriate liquidity strategy to develop a liquid market while managing the inventory risk for their digital assets throughout their adoption cycle.
About the job opening
Key Responsibilities
Partner closely with Quant Traders and researchers to design, implement, and continuously optimize on-chain trading strategies and treasury operations, including:
Cross chain Arbitrage
CEX/DEX Arb
Concentrated Liquidity Capital Deployment
Join the Quant Dev team and own the engineering side of taking strategies and treasury tooling from research to production.
Architect and maintain blockchain-agnostic execution infrastructure across EVM, Solana, Sui, and other ecosystems.
Build and operate real-time systems for transaction construction, simulation, signing, submission, monitoring, and recovery.
Design and maintain on-chain data ingestion pipelines to power treasury systems, risk monitoring, inventory management, and reporting.
Tune systems for execution quality, slippage, latency, gas efficiency, fill rates, and capital utilization.
Integrate with DEXs, RFQ systems, aggregators, bridges, and liquidity venues.
Collaborate daily with traders, quants, backend, and finance teams to improve pricing, risk controls, and capital efficiency.
Track new protocols, venues, and primitives from a trading, execution, and treasury perspective.
Participate in incident response, post-mortems, and infrastructure hardening.
Write clean, production-grade code and participate in reviews and security processes.
Own API infrastructure for treasury management, exposing real-time multi-chain balances, risk metrics, and capital allocation.
Required Experience
4–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with 2+ years focused on blockchain / DeFi trading systems.
Experience working in Quant Dev, trading infrastructure, or high speed environments.
Proven experience implementing algorithmic trading strategies in production systems.
Strong experience integrating with DEXs, RFQ protocols, and liquidity venues.
RFQ systems experience is strongly preferred.
Solid understanding of transaction mechanics, mempools, gas pricing, MEV, and on-chain execution risks.
Experience building data pipelines for on-chain analytics, balance tracking, or treasury systems.
Proficiency in backend languages used in trading systems (Python, Rust, Go, TypeScript, etc.).
Ability to reason quantitatively about execution quality, risk, and capital efficiency.
Comfortable owning systems that directly impact PnL and firm-wide capital deployment.
Nice to Have
Smart contract experience in Solidity or Rust.
Experience with indexing frameworks, ETL pipelines, or streaming systems for blockchain data.
Exposure to cross-chain messaging, intents, or solver-based systems.
MEV mitigation or private orderflow experience.
Background in low-latency trading environments.
Experience running and optimizing blockchain node infrastructure, and modifying validator clients.
Our Recruitment Philosophy
Leadership, trustworthiness, and reputation are at the core of Acheron Trading’s DNA. We seek individuals who are:
Analytical thinkers capable of assessing and optimizing execution strategies
Self-starters with the confidence to make informed trading decisions
Trustworthy and accountable, ensuring reliability for colleagues and clients
Committed to excellence, going above and beyond to uphold Acheron Trading’s reputation
Our Offer
Competitive salary
Placement in the Employee Revenue Share Bonus Pool (paid semiannually)
The opportunity to work with one of the most innovative and fastest-growing trading firms in the industry
How to apply
Send your resume together with a brief introduction on yourself to sean.lim@acherontrading.com
Note: we do not work with middle-men recruiters, any hire should be direct.